Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the same warm affection that children have for Santa Claus. It was hard for them to believe that one man could have so many-and such distinguished-friends. But since the story appeared, Marx has received more than 1,000 letters from politicians and priests, generals and industrialists, grand dames and schoolboys...
...date, the Hitchcock shows have been adequately entertaining if not outstanding. But his grand manner and refreshing potshots at the sponsor have gained the program an impressive 29.5 Nielsen rating, a comfortable four points ahead of its NBC rival, the Goodyear-Alcoa program. For a rating that high, Sponsor Bristol-Myers is more than happy to put up with quips about its commercials...
...list of popular and pious tunes, ranging from I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus to Adeste Fidelis. CBS radio is not content with bombarding listeners with music. For a full hour on Christmas Eve, Bing Crosby will urge travelers in railroad stations across the U.S.-from Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to Los Angeles' Union Station-to raise their voices with his in a monster Christmas Sing with Bing. The network further urged all listeners to ". . . join in. We hope to get millions of people to open their windows and let their radios blare forth, bring their portable...
Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism, often writes as if Communism, cancer and the Cub Room were invented for his exclusive benefit. This week Winchell added Gutenberg to his preserve. He wrote: "The invention of the printing press represented a blessing for columnists-conceivably ranking with the discovery of fire for other mortals...
...Cypresses Believe in God, by José Maria Gironella, was the first part of an attempt, in the grand manner, to tell the story of tortured Spain from 1931 to the present. Using a single town as a testing ground, Gironella, a former Franco soldier, succeeded remarkably well in explaining how the civil war came about, without deserting his avowed objectivity...